CAF naming convention

Naming convention

It’s always a big discussion how to implement a naming convention for the Azure resources to be deployed. Often this article out of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is been used as a starting point for the own implementation in an enterprise.

This diagram shows the components of a Azure resource name:

Next Level

But what if you want to manage your naming convention of your environment at scale and during the deployment with pipelines. There is a helpful tool to consider - the Azure Naming Tool!

The Naming Tool was developed using a naming pattern based on Microsoft’s best practices. Once the organizational components have been defined by an administrator, users can use the tool to generate a name for the desired Azure resource.

The the most interesting thing about this is, that you can deploy this tool as an API to be used out of your automation.

Screenshot of the Azure Naming Tool v2